Barack Obama (D)

Candidate Summary, 2008 Cycle

Senator from Illinois

Obama's victory in the general election was aided by his tremendous fund-raising success. Since the start of 2007, his campaign relied on bigger donors and smaller donors nearly equally, pulling in successive donations mostly over the Internet. After becoming his party's nominee, Obama declined public financing and the spending limits that came with it, making him the first major-party candidate since the system was created to reject taxpayers' money for the general election.

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Cash on Hand: $15,466,043Debts: $434,954
Date of last report: 2008-12-31 00:00:00Totals may include compliance fund receipts

Total Raised by Quarter

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Source of Funds

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Individual contributions

$656,357,572

88%

PAC contributions

$1,830

0%

Candidate self-financing

$0

0%

Federal Funds

$0

0%

Other

$88,626,223

12%

How complete are this candidate's campaign finance reports?

Full Disclosure

$387,873,389

(92.9%)

Incomplete

$4,608,443

(1.1%)

No Disclosure

$25,054,012

(6.0%)

NOTE: All the numbers on this page are for the 2008 election cycle.
Summary and Fundraising by Quarter numbers are based on
Federal Election Commission data released electronically on September 20, 2008. All other numbers
are based on data released electronically on Monday, March 11, 2013.
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